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Starting List for 2018 and the last List before our next Festival with our shop - we will be at the Metal Assault Festival on 17th of February 2018 in Würzburg (Titan Force, Ashbury, Visigoth + more) incl. the new Visigoth Album on CD + LP ! And we are waiting for the first Heavy Load rerelease on CD + LP in 1 – 2 weeks! AND we plan to release our new Underground Power Records VINYLS on the 17th of February there exclusively: • Unearthed Elf (US) - (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - Epic US Doom Metal in the vein of Bathory / Veni Domine or Sorcerer with clean Vocals ! • Metalian (CAN) - Midnight Rider LP (LIM.500 - 150 blue + 350 black Vinyl) - CAN Power Metal Killer - forget the new Priest Album ! • M.A.S.A.C.R.E (PERU) (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - maybe the best classic Heavy Metal Album from South America ever with Crimson Glory like High Pitched Vocals ! • Blazon Stone - Down in the Dark LP (Lim. 500 - 150 Blue /350 Black Vinyl) - Classic SWE Running Wild worship and their best Album since "Return to Port Royal" ! 2 Weeks later we hope to have the next Underground Power Records Vinyl Attack: UP040 - Aircraft LP (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - 28.02.2018 UP052 - Destroyer LP (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - 28.02.2018 UP053 - Carnage LP (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - 28.02.2018 UP054 - Battle Axe (US) LP (LIM.300 - 100 col. + 200 black Vinyl) - 28.02.2018 Here we are with the NEWS: Underground Power Records CD Release: METALIAN - Midnight Rider (NEW*CAN HEAVY/SPEED METAL KILLER*PRIEST*MAIDEN*R.WILD) - 13 € Underground Power Records 2017 - Finally - the brandnew Album of CAN finest in classic 80's Heavy/Speed Metal is released on CD ! Limited Edition of 500 copies, incl. 4 page Booklet with Lyrics ! Remember their awsome Gig at the Keep It True Festival ? This is maybe the classic Heavy Metal Highlight of 2017! Again you can await old school metal and a mixture between speedy NWOBHM stuff and 80ies Heavy Metal with shredding guitars and a powerful, melodic voice incl. high pitched screams ! For Fans of Exciter, Abattoir, Jaguar, Raven, Judas Priest (Painkiller - Era), Iron Maiden, early Running Wild CDS ANCIENT EMPIRE - The Tower (NEW*US METAL KILLER*ICED EARTH*JAG PANZER*OMEN) - 14 € Stormspell Records 2017 - Brandnew US Metal Killer ! Classic US Power Metal for fans of ICED EARTH, JAG PANZER, OMEN, ARMORED SAINT just to name a few. The mysterious Ancient Empire, who unbeknownst to all but a select few has been waging wars of domination in both the distant past and distant future is ready to strike once again. A forthcoming 3rd chronicle, entitled The Tower, takes yet another in depth look at their influence on mankind through the ages. Or, it could just be a blistering heavy metal album brought to you by HellHound alumni Joe Liszt, Steve Pelletier, and Rich Pelletier. ANGELMORA – Mask of Treason (NEW*GRE POWER METAL*QUEENSRYCHE*RIOT*WARDRUM) - 13 € Steel Gallery Records 2017 - ANGELMORA is a Power/Heavy Metal band which created by Dyan Mair (Cyanide 4, ex- Dragon’s Lair, Crimson Fire, Dark Nightmare, Tidal Dreams). For Fans of Queensryche, Lethal, Riot, Wardrum, Crimson Glory, Savatage In July 2014 Dyan along with Johnny, Liam and Alexi started the recordings of their debut full length album “Mask of Treason”. During the recordings had the chance to participate in important Athens festivals such as Wreck Athens Festival, Rock You to Hell Festival and the GBOB (Global Battle of the Bands) competition in which taken the 4th place between 12 estimable bands! The band has delivered 11 tracks of U.S. Power/Heavy Metal culture, having a unique vampire dress Styling, combining classic and modern schemes (Queensryche, Crimson Glory, Savatage, Riot, A7X and more). AUDREY HORNE - Blackout (NEW*HARD ROCK KILLER*#1 ROCK HARD*THIN LIZZY*BLACK TRIP) – 14 € Napalm Records 2018 - Brandnew Limited First Edition Digipak incl. 2 Bonus Tracks. #1 - Album oft he Month in the new ROCK HARD Magazine For Fans of Thin Lizzy * Black Star Riders * Scorpions * Rainbow * Deep Purple * Kiss * Ozzy Osbourne * Sahg * Aerosmith * Van Halen * UFO * Tygers Of Pan Tang * Horisont * Robert Pehrsson´s Humbucker * Black Tri Fuel to the fire – that’s what relentlessly hot and timeless hard rock outfit Audrey Horne provide. What started back in 2002 soon took the Norwegians and their riff-soaked fury all the way to the top, albeit accidentally. Three years after the much-praised Pure Heavy album, Blackout arrives with the force of a massive rock`n`roll party! Lend your ear to the thundering Iron Maiden leads that ‘This Is War‘ has to offer or to the serious amount of cowbell and twin guitar harmonies that infuse tracks like ‘Blackout.’ Wine, women, and lone wolves are the stuff Audrey Horne anthems made of. It’s 10 ultra-catchy, fist-pumping songs that have will reduce venues in Europe to piles of dust. AVENGER - Too Wild to Tame CD EP # 13 (NEW*NWOBHM CLASSIC*1983*BRIAN ROSS*SATAN) - 7 € Skol Records 2017 - Brandnew # 13 - official CD replicas of the original NWoBHM singles - legendary debut single from 1983 feat. Brian Ross (SATAN, BLITZKRIEG) on vocals. Another title in the Skol Records series of the official CD replicas of the original NWoBHM singles. Cartoon sleeve, original artwork (front and back cover), dynamic old school mastering. Limited edition: only 500 copies worldwide. BARNABAS - Little Foxes (NEW*US WHITE METAL*PHILADELPHIA*SAINT*JERUSALEM*M.CHURCH) - 15 € Retroactive Records 2017 - Brandnew US White Metal Classic - Full color 12 page booklet insert with lyrics and band pics For fans of Jerusalem, Philadelphia, Metal Church, Saint, Testament, and Accept! On 1986's Little Foxes, Brian Belew's pyrotechnic guitar leads continued to push the sound of Barnabas over the top. He was well known as a human dynamo of an axeman, one who routinely wow'd audiences by combining in-concert acrobatics with the fact that he never missed a note! Brian had an amazing ability to use tapping techniques, (pioneered by Eddie Van Halen), in incendiary ways that had never been heard before in Christian rock. Gary Mann's bass style was heavily influenced by bassists Geddy Lee of Rush and Dave Hope of Kansas. Gary drove the band from beneath, his playing coupling beautifully with the powerhouse drumming of Kris Klingensmith. Kris emerged as a talented lyricist, writing the words to nearly all of the band's songs on the last three albums as well as the notable words on the back cover of the Little Foxes album. A lyrically harsh and distinct album, Little Foxes also contains some of Belew's most notorious guitar work, along with NancyJo Mann's most convicting vocals (her performances on "China White" and "Destroy After Use" are soul haunting!). Little Foxes marks the next step of Barnabas moving beyond the experimental and progressive sounds of Approaching Light Speed and Feel the Fire to embrace an all-out metal assault. "Auschwitz 87" is so fast and aggressive that the guitar riffs could have come from a Metallica or early Slayer album. "Destroy After Use" hammers away with monster metal riffs and terrifying passionate vocals that let you know in no uncertain terms: - "the devil has a line on you." Gone are most of the complex progressive pieces with keyboards that gave the listener moments to breathe on previous albums.Little Foxes is overflowing with urgency and is nothing less than full-on bombastic heavy metal at it's finest! The band seemed to know their final collective voice needed music as heavy as the message. Even in 2017, the message and the in-your-face metallic riffage remain engaging and mesmerizing. BARNABAS - Feel the Fire (NEW*US WHITE METAL REMASTERED*I.MAIDEN*RUSH9 - 15 € Retroactive Records 2017 - Limited Edition CD with Full color 12 page booklet insert with lyrics and band pics Barnabas developed a style of music that straddled the fence between energetic, aggressive power metal (like Iron Maiden, Dio, or Black Sabbath) and experimental progressive rock (like Rush, Styx, or Marillion). On top of the music soared the vocals of a chain-chompin' banshee lead singer who was all about putting her boot up the dark one's back side. The overriding question for Feel the Fire was obvious. Considering the artistic and commercial success of 1983's Approaching Light Speed, could the band capture lightning in a bottle twice? Barnabas was an amazing band, both because they were the heaviest Christian band of their era, and also one of the most creative lyrically and musically. They were as musically adventurous as Rush, but they would also put the hammer down and at any moment to grind out some extremely heavy metal - which they were doing a couple of years before the likes of Barren Cross, Philadelphia, Saint, Messiah Prophet, and Stryper appeared. And, while the band proved even more progressive in their metal for this release, the trademark foundations remained intact - smokin' guitars and top-notch instrumentation. With Feel the Fire, the band expanded the boundaries of Christian metal. Not satisfied with creating art by numbers or being a cookie-cutter band, it would be many years before anyone in Christian metal circles would touch the depth and creativity of Barnabas. With Feel the Fire, fans were treated to a mesmerizing magic slab of metal. One that couldn't be ignored or shaken. One that was impossibly irresistible and memorable. Indeed, Barnabas was unique in the truest sense. BLACK DEATH - s/t (NEW*LIM.500 DIGIPAK*US METAL CLASSIC '84*IRON MESSIAH) - 13 € Hells Headbangers 2017 _ Brandnew digipak, ltd 500 ! LONG-overdue reissue of BLACK DEATH's self-titled debut album.